Dr Sabine Parrish

Biography

I am an anthropologist of food and nutrition, working primarily along two broad streams of research: socioeconomic inequalities and dietary health, and cultures of coffee consumption. I have conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil, the United States, and the United Kingdom. 

Prior to joining the University of Aberdeen, I was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Food Policy at City, University of London, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford. I have been a Visiting Lecturer at Stanford University and the University of Gastronomic Sciences and I am an affiliate of the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity at the University of Oxford.

External Memberships

European Association of Social Anthropologists - Network co-convenor: Anthropology of Food

Research Overview

My research interests include: dietary inequalities and health; tropical agriculture (particularly sugarcane and coffee); agricultural and service labour; consumption; coloniality and colonialism; moral economies; translation.

Past Research

Some of the research projects I have been involved in are: 

Family Food Experience Study - London (2021-2024)

Pregnancy-Related Interventions in Mothers at Risk for Gestational Diabetes (2020-2023)

Identifying Changes in Household Eating and Physical Activity During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020-2021)

Understanding Obesity and Eating Disorders through the Material Culture of the Home (2019-2020)

Coffee Consumption in Hybrid Production-Consumption Economies (2016-2021)